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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Sunday Morning in the Church of Beethoven

Continuing my weekly feature: It's YouTube's most popular version of the opening movement of the Moonlight, which I saw her do live in NYC at a WQXR marathon a few months back. It's wonderful but an example of the slow tempo approach that Andras Schiff complains leaves enough time to eat lunch while it's still going on.

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